Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy

1. Refers to our ability to effectively make use of the technologies at our disposal. Knowledge of technical skills and the social practices that sorround the use of new media .

2. Digital Natives

   • Students born in the technologinal age
     • They are used to receiving information really fast. They parallel process and multi-task
       • They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite.
         • they prefer ramdom access - like hypertext
           • They function best when networked
             • They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards
               • They prefer games to 'serious' work

3. Digital Imigrants

   • Instructors that speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age)
     • They like to teach step-by-step, individually and above all, seriously.
       • They don't think their students can learn succesfully while watching Tv or listening to music, because they can't.
         • They think the proccess of learning-teaching can't or shoudn't be fun
           • They assume the methods that worked for them when they were students are going to work for their students now.
             • Logical and manual learning
   • Smart adults imigrants accept that they don't know about their new world and take advantage of their kids to help them learn and integrate.
     • OUR METHOLOGY
       • We have to learn to communicate in the language and style of our students.
         • without changing the meaning of what is important, or of good thinking skills
         • but going faster, less step-by-step, more in parallel, with more random access, among other things.
   • Not-so-flexible inmigrants spend most of their time grousing about how good things were in the 'old country'

4. CONTENT

   • Legacy
     • includes reading, writing, arithmetic, logical thinking, understanding the writings and ideas of the past, etc - all of our "traditional" curriculum. Still important but from another era.
   • Future
     • Is digital and technological. It includes software, hardware, robotics, ect. It also includes the ethics, politics, sociology, languages and other things that go with them.

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